Product Designer

AwardSpring • Chicago, IL

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

AwardSpring is seeking a Product Designer to join their AI-native product team. This role involves shipping UX, UI, and interaction work end-to-end across their products, prototyping in code using agentic tooling, and owning the visual and interaction system for assigned surfaces. The designer will also be responsible for pushing back on weak product framings, proposing alternatives, and staying close to users to inform their work. This is an individual contributor role on a small product team, reporting directly to the CTO.

Requirements

• Used Claude Code, Cursor, AI prototyping tools, or comparable agentic tools to ship real product work — not just mocks.
• 3+ years shipping product design work that made it to production.
• A portfolio that shows interaction, system, and craft thinking - not just visuals.
• Strong opinions about what "good" looks like — design decisions and product decisions both.
• Stack-agnostic; comfortable in unfamiliar codebases.
• Comfortable presenting work to customers, executives, and peers.

Responsibilities

• Ship UX, UI, and interaction work end-to-end across our products.
• Prototype in code (via agentic tooling), not just in Figma - designs that ship are designs that work in the real codebase.
• Own the visual and interaction system for the surfaces you touch.
• Push back when product framings are weak; propose tighter alternatives.
• Stay close to users; let what you observe shape what you ship.

Benefits

• Top-of-market AI tooling: Claude Max, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and whatever ships next - your call, our budget.
• Unlimited token budgets.
• Direct line to the latest models the day they release.
• A mature, multi-tenant production codebase - real users, real stakes, real environments to ship in to.
• Health, dental, vision, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed